For some time, my drawings have focused on things that I don’t understand.  For me, they exist as a sort of learning experience or a way to form a personal perspective on a subject.  A way to identify with something I normally wouldn’t have the opportunity to or wouldn’t want to.  Due to the limitless ambiguity of the word “things” and my moderate (at best) worldly knowledge, the nature of what I do may seem a little unclear.  Overreaching maybe.  It probably is, and to a certain extent that is intentional. But I’m working on reining it in.  Tying up the loose ends and narrowing the sights in my own haphazard way.

In the past, I’ve tried to draw through various scientific phenomena via dissection, myth, research, spirituality, and things I thought were funny.  Scientific phenomena were definitely beyond my level of initial understanding.  In the same way, so is Spring Break, which is the technically unseen event that my new drawings kind of satellite around.  I’ve always ignored the ritual, maybe with the hopes that it would just go away.  At any rate, I’ve no interest in making judgments with my art.  I do that enough in the living part of my life. This is me doing my best to come to an understanding. This is my outstretched hand.  The new pieces tend to stem from the ideas of self-discovery through practiced and communal excess, abandonment as rejuvenation, common attempts at transcendence and foam parties.  

- Drew Beckmeyer, April 2008